SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "queen dowager"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "queen dowager")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 1119 matches on Performance Comments, 759 matches on Performance Title, 447 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Revised, with many Additions, by the Author and newly done into English by Mr Humphreys. [King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, Duke, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Prince present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rodelinda

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [The King and Queen present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Billingsgate

Dance:

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of several Foreign Persons of Distinction. Receipts: #176 1s. [King, Queen, Prince, Duke, and Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, and Princesses Royal and Caroline present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Event Comment: [T$The Queen present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Duke, and Duke's Company of Grenadiers present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Event Comment: KKing and Queen present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Event Comment: KKing, Queen, Prince, &c. present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Event Comment: Composed by Signior Bononcini. Queen, Prince, and princesses present. [For a comment upon the entertainment, see The Craftsman, 12 August (partially reproduced in Deutsch, Handel, p. 295), and Daily Post, 9 June (also in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 293-94).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Pastoral Entertainment

Event Comment: By Her Majesty's Command. Afterpiece: By Command. Taken from the French of Moliere. [The Queen present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Mrs Booth, others; particularly Myrtillo-

Event Comment: [K$King, Queen, Prince, three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: [T$The King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Griselda

Event Comment: King, Queen, three eldest Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 21 Nov.: Yesterday Mr Harper was brought up by Habeas Corpus to the Court of King's Bench and ... it was agreed, that Mr Harper should be discharg'd out of Bridewell, on his own Recognizance, to appear the last Day of this Term; and an Action on a feign'd Issue is to be tried, whether he is a Vagrant within the Statute of the 12th of Queen Anne, next Term

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

Event Comment: [King, Queen, Duke, and five Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: [King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: By Command of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange. For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi. .. and Senauki his Queen. For the Benefit of a Family that has sustain'd great Losses. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

Song: Songs proper to the Play. The Pleasant Month of May by a Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage before

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Tomo Chachi . . . Senauki his Queen, Prince John Tooanahowi, and the rest of the Indians. Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text by A. Salvi. Music by Handel. King, Queen, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariodante

Event Comment: Benefit Francisque. By Their Majesties' Command. N.B. Places may be taken next the Boxes built on the Stage for their Royal Highness the Princess Amelia and Princess Caroline. [King, Queen, and rest of the Royal Family present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue, Statue, Enfant, Ramoneur, Negre & Skelette: With Two New Scenes, Viz, The Elbow-chair And The Dog

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin always Harlequin